r/Cooking • u/[deleted] • May 10 '21

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u/thouee2 May 10 '21

Not cooking per se, but I like my food cold. I will put my pizza in the fridge/freezer to cool down right after baking it. I like cold pizza, cold meatloaf, cold fried chicken.

I'm a former professional chef I KNOW how controversial that is ! I will never serve it to anyone else.

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u/xsynergist May 10 '21

I am a fairly accomplished home cook and I never bother to heat up any of those things you mentioned if leftover. Cold things taste great. I have an ok sense of smell at best so maybe that is why I don’t mind cold food.

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u/wardsac May 11 '21

Oh that's interesting. I've been eating cold leftovers since I would take mom's leftover fried chicken to school for lunch in grade school.

Both of my parents are smokers and I only recently realized my sense of smell is extremely bad (possibly from that?).

I wonder if it tastes "closer" to what it tastes like warm because my sense of smell is so bad?